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On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Rick Waldron <waldron.rick@gmail.com>wrote:
> So, one of the biggest issues facing the web right now is the ones that
> aren't seen by end users of web sites - they are seen by web developers who
> have to wade through cryptic, often bizarre, frequently asymmetrical and
> almost alway too concise or too verbose APIs. Proposal and spec authors
> have the power to change this, and I understand it's hard to open your work
> for others to pick apart, but think of it this way: if you came to work and
> someone in the office had brought in new desks and computers without asking
> you and just said "use this, because I said so and I know better", at the
> very least, you'd be frustrated. There are too many examples of DOM APIs
> that suck and not enough examples of ones that are great and easy to use.
>
> Rick
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Satish,
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:50:25 +0100, Satish S <satish@google.com> wrote:
>>
>> Re the mail list, if we turn this around and look at it from the
>>>> perspective of someone that is mostly interested in the CG and not
>>>> WebApps, they would then receive close to an additional 2K emails
>>>> per quarter.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I really don't think you want that so I recommend against using
>>>> public-webapps.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Speech API discussions could use a "[speech api]" prefix in the email
>>> subject so that participants can filter emails based on that. I see this
>>> style being used by File API and possibly others in the webapps mailing
>>> list.
>>>
>>
>> True, but those are deliverables of the Web Apps group. Which already has
>> a number of deliverables, and a lot of mail traffic for work it has agreed
>> to take on. We have already moved various kinds of work to other lists to
>> reduce that traffic.
>>
>>
>> As Glen mentioned keeping discussions in the webapps mailing list
>>> will provide visibility to a wider audience, with a balanced web-centric
>>> view for new JavaScript APIs.
>>>
>>
>> The wider audience are welcome to subscribe to a list for the group
>> working on the API - but they may not want to. The fact that you add
>> messages to people's inbox doesn't mean that they will read them, as we all
>> know already. I do not think it is reasonable to use this list for the work
>> given that it has not been accepted as a work item by the group.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Chaals
>>
>> --
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>>
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